Did you see what Karen Marchetti did with her Mini Mandalas? She's willing to share how she designed her award winning quilt, "Andromeda's Crossing"! My job is to help you dye the fabric you will need. All of it, even the binding! In this all day workshop, each student will select a palette of three (3) colors of dye to work with for the whole day. From these three colors, you will dye several 22" x 22" ice dyed mandalas, six coordinating tone on tone solids, a 44" x 44" quilt back, a 44" x 44" quilt face, and a half yard of binding! From this coordinating collection of your own hand dyed fabric, you have everything you need to make your mandala quilt! You will have lots of fabric choices and options, so no excuses.....Karen is going to teach you to Cut The Fabric! Sign-up for Karen Marchetti's design class on Thursday and utilize your new dye fabrics!!!!!!!!!!

Did you see what Karen Marchetti did with her Mini Mandalas? She's willing to share how she designed her award winning quilt, "Andromeda's Crossing"!  Using your freshly dyed mandalas and contrasting/coordinating fabrics from Cindy’s class, Karen will share several samples using and cutting-up your beautiful hand dyes.  You’ll learn the same techniques Karen used to create her award-winning Andromeda Crossing Quilt.  You will leave class with an assembled 44” square uniquely-you masterpiece ready for stitching-down and quilting at home.  Karen will cover her invisible applique technique but we will not be sewing in class.  Karen will also cover some individual quilting plans for each piece. 

 Prerequistie Part 1

Using rulers and some amazing background fills on a custom-printed panel, Karen will share how to make your ruler work pop! You will take basic ruler work to the next level as well as learn some unique ruler ideas. Straight edge and curved longarm rulers are required. Karen will have her rulers available for purchase.

One student per machine. Bring thread snips.

Karen will share stitch variations of several common blocks - using only one start and stop. You'll leave class with a multitude of ideas for any type of block. This class is a spin-off of her Block Breakdown series. You will then stitch your favorite version of each block on a custom printed panel.

One student per machine. Bring thread snips.

Fills are fantastic, fun, and functional too! Whether filling oodles of empty space or accentuating beautiful appliqué, fills are a very necessary part of quilting. In class Karen will share many of her favorite background fills, including her signature fan fill, as well as combining fills for maximum effect. We’ll also cover density and scale of various designs and when to know which to use.